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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.63 $18.48
12 bottles: $12.35
#48 TOP 100 BEST BUY 2021. This cherry-hued blend is fresh and modern. Despite some jammy characters, the strawberry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $98.15
6 bottles: $96.19
A savoury, red-fruited quality to the fruit with spiced plums and raspberry jam. Powerful, supercharged in the mouth,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $169.93
6 bottles: $166.53
The 40th anniversary of the first vintage of this wine, named after Stephen Henschke's father, fourth-generation...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $56.13 $58.39
Spicy and creamy shiraz-based blend with velvety tannins framing a silky core of dark fruit, licorice, cloves,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $229.94
6 bottles: $225.34
First bottled in 1952 by Stephen Henschke's father Cyril, this reknowned cuvée is likely Australia's longest...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $162.05
6 bottles: $158.81
An enticing and perfumed nose of heather, dried herbs and lavender with roasted spices, peppercorns and ripe, fresh...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.90
12 bottles: $19.50
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.92 $59.80
Ideal vintage conditions set the stage for this impressive blend – worth waiting for after no Signature was...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $71.00
6 bottles: $69.58
This biodynamically farmed Shiraz from over-100-year-old vines needs some time in glass or decanter to open up. When...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $88.95
Fragranced and aromatically complex on the nose - beguiling and totally captivating red berries, clove, vanilla,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $32.80
6 bottles: $32.14
Impressively aromatic and perfumed showing cranberry, raspberry, spices and violets. Fresh red fruits and a mouth...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $56.13
Spicy and creamy shiraz-based blend with velvety tannins framing a silky core of dark fruit, licorice, cloves,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $668.78
The 60th anniversary of Australia's most famous single-vineyard wine, whose oldest contributing patch – the 0.56ha...
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Red
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $546.45
The 2018 Hill of Roses Shiraz is sourced from a block within the Hill of Grace vineyard that was planted in 1989 with...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $180.83
First bottled in 1952 by Stephen Henschke's father Cyril, this reknowned cuvée is likely Australia's longest...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $202.49
Wonderfully elegant, this red has plenty of polish to the tannins, and there's also a lot of complexity and harmony...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $406.84
This has a very expressive and intense feel with assertive, 100% new American oak, sitting in a bold, spicy layer...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $70.23
A blend of 57% cabernet sauvignon and 43% shiraz, this has a very impressively complete feel, a hallmark of the 2018...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $68.95
This delves into a very rich and attractive place with such intense lemon and ripe-peach character on offer. The...
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Bottle: $79.96

2018 Australia Barossa South Australia

Whilst most of Australia consists of arid deserts and dense bushland, the oceanic coasts to the south of the country have a terrain and climate ideal for vine cultivation and wine production. It took several decades of failed attempts at the end of the 18th century in order to produce vines of a decent enough quality for making wine, but since those first false starts, the Australian wine industry has continued to grow and grow. Today, wine production makes up for a considerable part of the Australian economy, with exports in recent years reaching unprecedented levels and even overtaking France for the first time ever. Whilst the greatest successes in regards to quality have been the result of the Syrah grape varietal (known locally as Shiraz), Australia utilizes several Old World grapes, and has had fantastic results from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay and more. As the Australian passion for locally produced wine continues to develop, wineries have begun experimenting with a wider range of grape varietals, meaning that nowadays it isn't uncommon to find high quality Australian wines made from Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Viognier, amongst many others.

The Barossa Valley in Australia is one of the New World's most interesting wine regions, having been established in the late 19th century by German settlers. The region benefits enormously from the relatively temperate climate, which ranges from being hot on the lower parts of the valley, to quite cool as the altitude increases on the valley slopes. Barossa Valley produces mostly Shiraz wines, and has become one of the key Australian regions for this distinctive grape varietal which has gone on to be a major grape for the Australian wine industry. Despite suffering from a poor reputation in the mid 20th century, by the 1980s, plenty of unique and forward-thinking wineries set up in Barossa to take advantage of its excellent climate, and set about producing the excellent red and white wines which the region is famed for today.

The vast region of South Australia is home to a wide variety of vineyards, growing a large range of different grape varietals. Because the South Australian wine region is so large, it benefits from a great array of climatic conditions – from dry and hot, to cool and windy – which wineries can use to their advantage when it comes to selecting the grape varietal they wish to thrive in a particular sub-region. South Australia is most commonly associated with the big, powerful and fruit-forward Shiraz wines which are produced in the cooler valley areas of the region, but recent decades have seen something of an explosion in the South Australian wine industry, leading to wineries expanding their repertoire enormously and experimenting with other fine grape varietals and making the most of their unique terroir.